Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!fred From: fred@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Fred Bowen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Help with C64 sound chip problems Message-ID: <1970@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 13:12:10 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1970 Posted: Thu Jun 4 13:12:10 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 03:04:52 EDT References: <225@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1030@bobkat.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 18 > In article <225@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV> oscar@jplpro.UUCP (Oscar "Fred" DeMartino) writes: > >All of the estimates that I have gotten to fix it have been so high that it > >would be just as cheap to buy a new C64. > >Oscar DeMartino > > Your best bet would be to cut the old SID chip out of your '64 (cut it at the > leads coming out of the chip) and solder a new SID chip to the leads which > Vic Sohal Please check the fuse first! That is the usual cause of a silent-but-still- working 64. Wish I responded sooner- hope you didn't hack your machine yet! -- -- Fred Bowen uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!fred arpa: cbmvax!fred@seismo.css.GOV tele: 215 431-9100 Commodore Electronics, Ltd., 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA, 19380